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Menolly spoke up "She was feeling punky, so we fixed up a bed for her in a little cubbyhole the first level down She doesn’tstuck in a cave"

"Yeah, well, that needs to end soon enough" I let out a short breath "She suffered at Hyto’s hands for five years, though not in the sahtfully chewed a mouthful of potato

"What was it you had to tell us?" Delilah asked She looked worn out We all did Living in So hoood Bad, in fact Real bad Hang-on-to-your-hats bad" I decided, why get their hopes up? We were already facing a world of hurt, ht as well Band-Aid it and just yank it off fast

Vanzir cleared his throat and told them what Carter had told hi at him Then at me Then all hell broke loose and the barroash with voices

After a moment, I slowly, painfully climbed on top of one of the chairs and let out a whistle Delilah winced--her hearing always gave her trouble with shrill noises

"Shut up Everyone just shut up There isn’t much we can do about it now There isn’tabout it Tomorroe put out feelers Hunt around, see e can find We do our best to trace the rogue portal--but I guarantee you, Telazhar isn’t going to be hanging around waiting for us I have no doubt he’llfor Shadow Wing?" Roz began to carry plates into the kitchen for Iris

"I don’t know Stacia orking to edge Shadow Wing out of his position Telazhar trained her Chances are he’s on a rogue ain--we can’t be sure"

I tried to run through all the per on his own, or for Shadow Wing For all we knew, Trytian could have coaxed him to come over No erous sorcerer hanging around Seattle, and that just wasn’t going to fly

"All we know is that he’s trouble and we can’t let him stay over Earthside If he tries to make it back to Otherworld, they can deal with him--and will He’ll be put to death if he tries to reenter OW"

A knock on the door interrupted ht Almost i Estelle and St George to enter Georgio looked up at S across his face He’d recognized Son from the first time he saw him Sometimes those alked with one foot in another world--whether it was the world trapped inside their own minds, or another reals you to my barrow?" S down her cheeks "Sonize He was average height, bald--except for a long ponytail hanging from the center of the back of his head--"

"Asheré! It’s Hyto’s snow"What did he say? What did he want?"

"He indicated we’d better get out of the house if we didn’t want to behow did he put it? Cannon fodder He told us to bring you ahis cool I took his hand in lanced down atall too exposed

"He said to tell you that your sire is co area razed, you are toyonder--with Ca at dawn If you don’t show up, then Hyto will begin to systematically destroy all the houses and huht in an to pulse I reached for it, trying to yank it off, but it just throbbed, slow and steady, and I couldn’t breathe I fell to

"Move, ive her space," someone said

"Get out of the way!"

"Let ht for control, fought for consciousness Hands liftedcorridor Behind edfroo ahead, follow the trail of twinkling lights that spread out in front of e of a black, vast abyss, and then went spiraling into it, head first, swan-diving into dark sparkling night

The sparkles floated, dancing through the darkness, whispering ht, shivered around h me as they swept me into their midst

Corove

I hesitated, then--feeling no sense of Hyto nearby--decided to do as they asked I’d reached the point where I had to run on instinct because I was certainly not in control ofa bite out of ave in and did what they wanted, everything would be okay Hell, the daer could countthe sparkles to drag hting I was giving in--letting the universe do what it would Even though I was afraid, whatever happened would happen and I could only react There was no control here to fight for

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